Stephen S. Power: How Publishers Can Avoid Extinction

In his blogpost The Incredible Resilience of Publishing Fantasy , author Michael Levin responds to a piece in the Atlantic by former Random House editor Peter Osnos. Osnos makes the case that books will survive, while Levin makes the point Osnos avoids saying: trade publishers might not, having "lost the two things that made their business model work: the hammerlocks on distribution and marketing that the Internet has utterly destroyed." Levin's correct, but I also agree with Osnos that trade publishers are resilient and adaptive.